Low income SF students from Mission nonprofit ejected from Dreamforce

Re:Low income SF students from Mission nonprofit ejected fro... by alexanderstears on Tuesday November 14, 2017 @02:27PM (#15698314)

But the legal system constrains what employers can consider in candidates. Perhaps these hires would have failed a cognitive test? Unfortunately, we'll never know because the courts read disparate impact as proof of discrimination.

It's an ugly truth, but we would be better off with more discrimination. Stupid people should hold less power in society and discrimination is the means to keep stupid people away from power.

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Re:Low income SF students from Mission nonprofit ejected fro... by dragonwriter on Tuesday November 14, 2017 @02:34PM (#15698363)

> Unfortunately, we'll never know because the courts read disparate impact as proof of discrimination.

“Disparate impact” which is prrof of illegal discrimination is not just unequal impact by protected category, it's unequal impact that cannot be shown to be sufficiently tied to job function.

> Stupid people should hold less power in society and discrimination is the means to keep stupid people away from power.

“Stupid people” are not a protected class; discrimination against “stupid people” is not generally prohibited, nor where this is actually tied directly to job performance is discrimination against “stupid people” that incidentally has effects on a protected class owing exclusively to the distribution of stupidity.

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